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goodbye my friend its hard to die
with all the birds singing in the sky
now that my time has come

we had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun...

Terry Jacks did that one.

I don't remember any songs themselves scaring me as a kid, although when the Thriller video came out I remember being horrified when Michael Jackson turned into a werewolf. The rest of the vid I loved.

I'm not a kid any more, but the beginning of Crass's 'Mother Earth' gives me the creeps, especially since the song is about Myra Hindley.

The most dangerous woman of all is the one who refuses to rely on your sword to save her because she carries her own.

Totally terrified me...
in fact, it made me nauseous...I felt like I was gonna hurl!
It's that kind of stamping sound that runs through out the song...like the zombies are comin' for me.
And of course the singers voice.And the way the music veered off into a freaky whine..
<shudder>
The artist Napoleon the 13th wasn't it?

Slim Whitman-Indian Love call God that yodeling is a fate worse than death!!!

My best friend in High School had a nightmare that he was trapped in a van after it fell off a cliff, and the tape deck kept playing "Mule Skinner Blues" by Dolly Parton over and over. He was REALLY bothered by it. Of course we got ahold of a copy...

I can't listen to a lot of songs, either because they are scary, or send me spiraling into a deep depression. Wildfire, Goodbye Blue Sky, Nights in White Satin, Last Kiss, Teddy Bear, Roses for Mama, Mama Liked the Roses, etc.

Yeah, if it has a person dying in the song, I probably can't listen. Except for "People Who Have Died". Interestingly, "Gone Away" by the Offspring is my ringtone.

I don't remember the name of it, but it was a folk ballad popular back in the late 50s/early 60s about a littler girl named Cindy who fell in a well and could not be rescued. I was about 4, I guess, and I would listen to it on the radio, scared me to death and I still am terrified of falling into a well or a hole.

The video for Badfinger's 'Come and Get It' creeps me out. I don't know why. Maybe it's because a couple of them killed themselves. I also saw a Charles Manson docu where the girls were loading guns and sang the chorus.

The most dangerous woman of all is the one who refuses to rely on your sword to save her because she carries her own.

I had 2 that would scare me. One was, I think it's an old Irish Folk Song. It's called "My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean". I used to think it was called "My BODY Lies Over The Ocean"! I thought it was a song about a ghost looking for his body. Especially the line "Bring back, bring back, bring back my body (Bonnie) to me"!
The other one is called "Laurie". I can't remember who sang it, but it was a song popular in the late 60's. It was all about a guy who met a girl at a dance, and when he walked her home, he lent her his sweater,because she said she was very cold. He left her at her door, walked away, then remembered he needed to get his sweater back. When Laurie's father answered the door, he told him who he was and that he wanted to get his sweater back. The father then said that Laurie died a year ago, coming home from a dance all alone. Then, the father tells the guy where Laurie's grave is. The guy then goes to Laurie's grave and finds his sweater lying on top of her grave!
Man, did the story in that song give me the creeps!
BTW, here's a clip of the song:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0N4n...eature=related

I had 2 that would scare me. One was, I think it's an old Irish Folk Song. It's called "My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean". I used to think it was called "My BODY Lies Over The Ocean"! I thought it was a song about a ghost looking for his body. Especially the line "Bring back, bring back, bring back my body (Bonnie) to me"!
The other one is called "Laurie". I can't remember who sang it, but it was a song popular in the late 60's. It was all about a guy who met a girl at a dance, and when he walked her home, he lent her his sweater,because she said she was very cold. He left her at her door, walked away, then remembered he needed to get his sweater back. When Laurie's father answered the door, he told him who he was and that he wanted to get his sweater back. The father then said that Laurie died a year ago, coming home from a dance all alone. Then, the father tells the guy where Laurie's grave is. The guy then goes to Laurie's grave and finds his sweater lying on top of her grave!
Man, did the story in that song give me the creeps!
BTW, here's a clip of the song:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0N4n...eature=related

just for that, I love you even though I don't know who you are. Laurie is amazingly haunting. Patches isn't that bad either but Laurie . . . even with the context of the song written out here, it sent shivers down my spine. No wonder you were scared as a kid, would have sent me running.

The one and only Twilight Zone theme song. I remember one particular night when I was in bed. My mom was in the other room watching a rerun of the Twilight Zone. Just lying there, hearing that music in the dark..... The only thing I could see was the shadows of the trees on my curtains on a dark and windy night.......creepy.

I also had a friend who freaked at the Unsolved Mysteries theme song...

The song that used to scare me was Ghost Riders in the Sky. It just used to freak me the hell out every time I heard it.

thank you for bringing that back. I mean it, I was singing the melody all this time and couldn't remember where I knew it from. I'm just glad I never really listened to it as a kid, that would have sent me right over the edge.

AMEN! Actually, it didn't scare me, I just found it delightfully creepy. My brother had the record, and he finally insisted my mom buy me my own copy, because every time he'd play it, I'd hang around outside his bedroom door to listen.

Yep, death hags are born, not made.

Just drink lots of Kool-Aid, and take one of these blue pills three times a day.

The one and only Twilight Zone theme song. I remember one particular night when I was in bed. My mom was in the other room watching a rerun of the Twilight Zone. Just lying there, hearing that music in the dark..... The only thing I could see was the shadows of the trees on my curtains on a dark and windy night.......creepy.

I also had a friend who freaked at the Unsolved Mysteries theme song...

The Twilight Theme Freaked me out too. Very spooky. The shows were always the oddest stories but scary for a Child. As an Adult the song was the Theme from Jaws. It was so realistic with the Dundun Dundun Dundu.....Reslly, you thought that shark was headed down the Hallway to your bedroom. As an adult I think that was the only movie that actually gave me nightmares for a few days.

Damn! ScottyMonger beat me to it. D. O. A. That song came out when I was like ten, and it absolutely terrified me. I still can't listen to it without wigging slightly out. Knights In White Satin by the Moody Blues scared me if they played the "complete" version, where he does the poem (?) at the beginning. Hell, the whole song's weird as fuck. I like it but it used to completely scare me out of my mind and they ALWAYS played it late at night. Bad vibes for a ten or eleven year old!

Originally Posted by Stonecold

D.O.A. creeped me out as a kid, still does. Probably responsible for my fear of flight.

When I was a child and living in California there was a song about a big earthquake and California falling off into the ocean. That scared the heck out of me. I think drowning would be a terrible way to die and I used to lie awake at night hoping we didn't have an earthquake while I was sleeping. Does anybody remember that song?

When I was a child and living in California there was a song about a big earthquake and California falling off into the ocean. That scared the heck out of me. I think drowning would be a terrible way to die and I used to lie awake at night hoping we didn't have an earthquake while I was sleeping. Does anybody remember that song?

Mama Cass did a song called "California Earthquake," early 70s:

I heard they exploded the underground blast
They say its gonna happen - gonna happen at last
That's the way it appears
They tell me the faultline runs right through here

So that maybe that may be
What's gonna happens gonna happen to me
They tell me the faultline runs right through here

Atlantis will rise, Sunset Boulevard will fall
Where the beach used to be won't be nothing at all
That's the way it appears
They tell me the faultline runs right through here

So that maybe that may be
What's gonna happen's gonna happen to me
They tell me the faultline runs right through here

I heard they exploded the underground blast
They say its gonna happen - gonna happen at last
That's the way it appears
They tell me the faultline runs right through here

So that maybe that may be
What's gonna happens gonna happen to me
They tell me the faultline runs right through here

Atlantis will rise, Sunset Boulevard will fall
Where the beach used to be won't be nothing at all
That's the way it appears
They tell me the faultline runs right through here

So that maybe that may be
What's gonna happen's gonna happen to me
They tell me the faultline runs right through here

???

mmmmm, I don't know if that's the one. I seem to remember it being a man singing it and it was a bit of a folk song. It was really popular though and they played it all the time. And probably more in the mid to late 60's.

I loved Mamma Cass. (Scott shows the house she used to live in on his Helter Skelter tour.)

I remember my mum humming this when I was a kid and she told me the story behind the song --- about some guy losing his wife. It didn't only make me feel sad but freaked me out (And still does! Worse than watching the Exorcist/Omen movies put together). My first realization of death...via a lullaby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!